POSITION CONTROL PROCEDURE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP51-00036A000100030001-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 21, 1998
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: May 13, 1947
• Content Type: MF

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13 May 1947
MEMORANDUM FOR THE EXECUTIVE FOR PERSONNEL AND ADMINISTRATION
SUBJECT: Position Control Procedure
1. Reference is made to the memoranda of 9 April 1947
and 11 April 1947, from the Advisor for Management, on the above
subject, and your endorsement of 14 April 1947 asking that delays
in the installation of the procedure be brought to your attention.
2. My memorandum of 17 April 1947 commented on the
general picture of what had been done on the Position Control Pro-
cedure, as well as the plans for the future activity necessary to
complete the installation. At that time, I also pointed out some
of the obstructions still remaining in the way of a satisfactory
conclusion of the entire problem. As a result, further comment
on the accuracy of information contained in the basic memorandum
of 9 April will not be made at this time.
3. As regards the schedule of dates included in the
basic memorandum, one needs only to look at the dates to realize
that the schedule would be impossible to maintain unless all other
important jobs were dropped and the entire clerical staff assigned
exclusively to the job of preparing cards and records necessary to
establish the system. Likewise, these dates do not take into con-
sideration the need for new equipment, reproduction of cards,and
forms, and the adaptation of existing equipment and records to the
needs of the new system. For example, it was necessary to have
new combination looks installed on the Kardex Cabinets in order to
meet security requirements. This, in itself, required approximately
two weeks to accomplish.
4. It is the recommendation of all concerned in this
office that the schedule of dates, as shown in Paragraph 21, be
revised as follows:
a) 21 April
b) 28 April
c) 5 May
d) 1 June
e) 15 June
f) 1 July
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We believe that these dates can be met, whereas the dates as established
in the basic memorandum are impossible to accomplish if other equally
important aspects of the personnel program are to continue operating.
Unless advised to the contrary, we will amend those dates to corres-
pond to the above schedule.
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JUDSON H. LIGHTSEY
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